It doesn't look believable that the outside is so bright but the walls inside have a lot of details unless of course there is a strong indoor light source. If you were to make the indoors darker it would be better. Possibly a good idea wrongly processed or shot.?

I was not aiming for a "believable" shot. This was taken when getting out of a church. For the beginning one could see 2 interpretations: that she is "seeing the light" when getting out of the church (with few other subsequent interpretations, mainly iconoclastic), or that she is "seeing the light" because she was in the church in the first place. If I wanted to go with the first one, then making the shot "not believable" might add to it . Those being said, in all fairness to stamper, something went wrong during the export, I might have exported an earlier version, I'll try post another one later when I get home. In LR the final version has better contrast. However, these modifications will not change the idea which is what I was aiming for here, and not technical perfection.

But otherwise, I like the idea. You've come a long way since the iguana (and me suspecting you as a troll Grin)

Ha, the iguana is actually taken 1 year later. I had it printed large and that's why it didn't seem that flawed

Here is another version, probably as good as I can get without going into Photoshop. I know technically could be better, but it was quite spontaneous, I had just one quick chance to get it. Probably in few years I'll be back and I will try a more planned shot. I guess you can try in any door (and probably I will), but it will miss a lot of the implications from using the church. If I could reduce the blown floor to half and no more I would be quite happy with it.

Here is another version, probably as good as I can get without going into Photoshop. I know technically could be better, but it was quite spontaneous, I had just one quick chance to get it. Probably in few years I'll be back and I will try a more planned shot. I guess you can try in any door (and probably I will), but it will miss a lot of the implications from using the church. If I could reduce the blown floor to half and no more I would be quite happy with it.

I disagree: it has now turned towards a conventional picture which isn't what I felt it to be about.

Artists must accept the challenge - perhaps necessity - of breaking established ground. Rules are fine for mundane topics, in fact I'd go as far as suggesting they are essential, but unless we also stick with our original and possibly 'difficult' feelings we get nowhere...

I disagree: it has now turned towards a conventional picture which isn't what I felt it to be about.

Artists must accept the challenge - perhaps necessity - of breaking established ground. Rules are fine for mundane topics, in fact I'd go as far as suggesting they are essential, but unless we also stick with our original and possibly 'difficult' feelings we get nowhere...

The poster - imo - didn't set out to break established ground. It was in fact a well established idea that many thought hadn't been properly executed. In this part of the forum you are judged by what you post and nobody knows your feelings about the image unless you tell them.

As I upgraded the PS I decided to finally use it. I don't know how I came up with the idea but I was able to get to this in a timely manner without doing it before. As a matter of fact I didn't do almost anything in Photoshop before.Granted the technical aspects could be better but I am curious if you think the idea it improves the original shot.